Example sentences of "we [verb] believe [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not have to subscribe to a version of history which sees it simply in terms of a struggle between virtue and vice , nor do we have to believe that all adolescents were intelligent and admirable , in order to argue for the repression of young people , if only in terms of debilitating images . |
| 2 | Mr Deputy Speaker , as the honourable members knows , our S S A calculations are on slightly different basis from England as we set out in this report and we do believe that local authorities should have the maximum flexibility to make their own decisions and it is therefore a matter for local debate . |
| 3 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 4 | Thus , when we are told that everything is ‘ OK ’ we prefer to believe that this is so , although what people say can often contain far deeper and more subtle feelings and personal emotions . |
| 5 | We come to believe that good writing shows how clever we are . |
| 6 | We observe a set of events , and decide that they have one explanation which is vastly more probable than all others ; so we come to believe that this explanation is correct , and we use it to make predictions in future . |